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her phs are inter twientd --intertwined. the castro has been work withing a place for all, with supervisor mandelman with at least two years and we're interested in seeing shelter be fully funded and there is enough safe shelter throughout the city. we heard that people living on the street, we have programs, the cbd have programs that work with merchants and work with people that are unhoused and trying to deescalate behavior and all those types of things. but one of the things that nobody really talked about is that, this is situation, that really, i hate to say this, has a neck --negative impact on the
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compassion on the people of san francisco. the issues of compassion and how, people suppose to be such a compassionate city. because the decisions that the board of supervisors are making. to fully fund safe and i really want to say. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. do we have anybody further who has public comment on agenda item number 4?
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madam chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. public comment is now closed. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, madam chair, thank you colleagues. thanks to all the folks who spoke, thanks to the department who are working hard on these challenges everyday, thanks to every one in san francisco who cares about this issue which i think is every one. and i would just say this, i'm proud of the work that our city folks.
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we have to show people that we're not just doing good in ways that you cannot see, we're going to do good in ways that you can see. and i do think that to do that, we need to think about reprioritizing resources especially when we have significant unspent funds. we have real needs to make it better and we have a real need for expanded shelter resources. we also plainly have need for poem with severe illness who are in the street and jail and site beds in the hospital where
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they do not belong. and, i'm hopeful that prop 1 will help us address the last of those issues. but i think on the first two we need to look. the mayor tried to do something around this last year, there was real resistance, i think the mayor and the board of supervisors again, need to look at what we're doing with our prop c dollars. and improving our csh. those are my thoughts right now. i would ask, i think this hearing can be heard and filed, i'm sure i'll ask for another one. >> thank you, supervisor mandelman and with that i would like to move this to file this hearing. >> clerk: on the motion that this hearing be filed. >> engardio. >> aye. >> clerk: dorsey. >> aye. >>.
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>> clerk: chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> thank you so much are there any other items. >> clerk: there is no further business. >> thank you, mr. clerk, we are adjourned.
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>> good morning ing and welcome to march 11, 2024 rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor walter and joined by supervisors safai and supervisor preston subing for chair ronan. our chair is victor young and like to thank sfgovtv.
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>> public comment will be taken on each item. when your item comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak on your right. you may submit public comment in writing e-mail them to myself the rules committee clerk at victor.young@sfgov.org. if you submit via e-mail it will be forwarded to the supervisor jz part of the file. you may send comments to u.s. mail in city hall, 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place, room 244, san francisco california 94102. please silence cell phones and electronic devices. documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today are expected to appear on beard board of-
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>> thank you, i like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronan from today 's meeting? >> on the motion to excuse supervisor ronan from today's meeting, on the motion, supervisor preston, aye. supervisor safai, aye. vice chair walton, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. please call item 1. >> item 1, motion approving/rejecting the president of the board of supervisors aaron peskin's nomination of gilbert williams to the planning commission, term ending july 1, 2026. (clerk of the board) (charter, section 4.105, provides that this nomination is subject to approval by the board of supervisors and shall be the subject of a public hearing and vote within 60 days from the date the nomination is transmitted to the clerk of the board. if the board fails to act on the nomination within 60 days from the date the nomination is transmitted to the clerk, then the nominee shall be deemed approved. transmittal date: february 27, 2024 y like
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to note the intent to schedule as a committee report for tomorrow board of supervisor meeting. >> thank you mr. clerk. now we'll hear from nominee for appointment, mr. gilbert williams and you have two minutes. >> thank you. good morning rules committee, vice chair walton, supervisor preston and my district supervisor safai. my name is gilbert williams and appoint today the san francisco planning commission seat number 3 to complete the term of commissioner gabriela ruiz. i would like to public thank commissioner ruiz for service to our city and recognize her commitment to community. we both share a love of our city and understand the value of listening and lifting up marginalized voices. it would be a honor to continue her work. i understand that the beauty of our city is in a diversity of our residents and protecting and enhancing the cultural richness is something all san franciscans should work towards. i like to thank supervisor aaron peskin for nominating me and values and honoring
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community voices that put my name forward to enhance diversity and commune tee voice on the san francisco planning commission. also would like to thank all those who are here today to support my appointment. little about myself and why my appointment to the planning commission will be a positive addition and strengthen a diversity and viewpoint of this very important deciding body. i was born and raised in san francisco. i attended public school, k-12. i had the adventurous experience of being part of the busing program to integrate the public schools attending schools in china town, putrara hill, mission and potrero and acselsier district. i found a career path in the building trade. i enrolled in the apprenticeship program and worked all over the city in commercial and residential construction. just a few projects i worked on
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as a union carpenter. because of my entrepreneurial spirit i enrolled in san francisco renaissance, graduated and earned the general building contractor license. for two decades i worked as a contractor working with projeths renovation, repair work, new construction for the past 4 years i have been a carpenter with our city and department of public works. in 2010, i was one of the 1.5 million californian who lost their home to for closure. eviction as a home owner or tenant is a devastating personal experience. i was fortunate to have the support of family and community to help me through this period. i found a few purpose in healing working with city wide community of neighbors who lost their homes or in danger of losing home. through this experience i educated myself on the issue that caused the wave of for e
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closures and thousands of evictions that impact our communities all over the city. through the education i began working voluntarily to keep my neighbors in their homes through direct action advocating at the city and state levels. in addition to helping my displaced neighbors i began working with community members, non profit housing developers and the planning department to plan is and advocate for hundred percent affordable housing projects in district 11 beginning to 2015 to the present and happy to report the fist two hundred percent affordable housing projects in district 11 in 20 years are completed this year. these projeths will be the home for hundreds of families and insure affordable renlts and dignified stable housing that our city desperately needs. als participating in the excelsior outer mission neighborhood strategy as a leader and advovocat under the san francisco planning
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department in 2018. confirming my appointsment to the san francisco planning commission, you will be confirming a community leader, union carpenter, resident who experienced displacement, a native san franciscans and maybe the first appointment to the planning commission from district 11. so many call the forgotten district which encompass the most children in san francisco unified school district and most diverse communities of the city. if confirmed i will work to find common ground with fellow commissioners, adhering to city general plan, always working towards equity and common good. bringing with me a value system that centers around people and communities that make up our vibrant city. thank you for your consideration and for your service to our city. >> thank you mr. williams. colleagues, do you have any questions or statements? supervisor preston. >> thank you chair walton. i just wanted to first off,
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great to be here in the rules committee sitting in for chair ronan and just thrilled to see this nomination. i just want to say in addition to all the things that mr. williams has talked about, not sure if you remember, but i think we met during the-when i was head of tenants together and we were working to prevent displacement from foreclosure back some 15 years ago and your leadership mr. williams on not only talking about your personal experience in terms of foreclosure, but channeling that personal experience into incredibly powerful advocacy that i think made a huge difference in neighborhoods in san francisco and also across the state, so i want to thank you for all of your affordable
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housing work and sometimes it is not necessarily the biggest thing on our resume, but it is something we do as volunteers in our community that has really a outside impact and i want to recognize that part of your work. thrilled to be supporting you and hopefully the whole board is and looking forward to you being on our planning commission. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisor preston. supervisor safai. >> thank you. thank you mr. williams for your activism in san francisco over the last number of years. definitely have been thoroughly engaged in a lot of conversation around planning. just wanted to give you a opportunity to say a few words what you think some of the key goals and roadmap are to achieve the housing element of 82 thousand units over the next few years and what you think your role is in that on the planning commission. >> thank you for the question supervisor safai. yeah, it seems like a
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monumental task. i'm not sure how realistic that number is, given the history of housing development in our city. i think the fact that we haven't succeeded in building our affordable housing requirements is something that is concerning. yeah, i think it is a huge challenge and will be interesting to find out more as a commissioner. >> in terms of the goal of 46 thousand units of affordable housing, out of the 82, do you see what kind of roadmap to get there and achieve that? >> well, we need funding.
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we need funding from the state, the federal government and a permanent source of funding to achieve that goal. not only for now, but for future affordable housing. i think that's pretty much the bottom line with affordable housing. >> we just passed the housing bonds, so hopefully that will be a good benefit. i know supervisor preston a number of years ago ran, i think proposition i, is that right? unfortunately this mayor has not dedicated the funding to doing acquisition. we have tremendous opportunities over the last couple years, but particularly this year with many of the largest property owners going into foreclosure, so those funds would have been funominally important to achieve that and acquire those properties. some that will come in front of you.
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i think that not many affordable projects are going to come in front of you, compared to the market rate projects, so i just want to give you a opportunity to see how you approach that and balance that out with the goals of affordable house. >> i think each project i look at individually to make sure that our small businesses and our neighborhoods are not impacted negatively. i think that's important. someone has experienced displacement and understands that sometimes those impacts aren't seen right away. they happen over time, and so yeah, i have to take each project individually. but i'm very concerned about displacement for our small business community and also for our residents. i think that should be priority number one to protect our
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existing residents in their homes and make sure we don't set up a situation where we create more homelessness. >> what do you think about the upcoming-we are going through the process of upzoning and adding density decontrol, planning department in particular who you will be overseeing and interacting with has made some recommendations to add significant height all over san francisco as well as removing density to achieve a significant number of units, which in many cases can be additional affordable units, depending upon the size of the project and requirement of inclusionary and which density bonus programs are used. just want to give you a opportunity to talk about that. >> yeah. thank you. yeah, i think again, i'm concerned. i'm concerned about the impacts to small business.
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we just came out of-we lost hundreds or thousands of businesses across the city and i think a lot of business owners just like getting back on their feet seems like to me. and so i would just be really concerned about negatively impacting our small business community. outside that, i have to look more into-i don't know all the parameters around the upzoning and so, i have to look into it more. >> a lot of the upzoning is along commercial corridors where in some places there are not small businesses. one areas come into our district is on-starts on 19th avenue and goes all the way down and some cases they are talking about 65 feet to create the opportunity to build some
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apartment buildings with higher density, so that is happening all over san francisco, so that conversation is really being pushed. particularly, that is something you will be taking on as a planning commission, so the idea is more about how adding height and density impacts, our goal to achieve the 82 thousand units and the impact on the neighborhood and neighborhood character so that is what the question is about. >> yeah. it is a huge question. it seems like all this upzoning talk and-there is a lot of-what i found is there a lot of communities that haven't really been informed about all these changes. i was at a planning commission meeting last month where a lot of residents from all over the city were surprised about the
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scope and of all the changes that are being brought forward, and so again, i think the community should have a say. i think the people in our city should have a say on those huge type of changes that impact their own neighborhoods, and so i would listen to those voices in order to make my decisions. >> okay. thank you. appreciate it. >> no problem. >> thank you supervisor safai. i don't see anymore questions or statements from board members. can we have public comment, mr. clerk? >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak on the item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes thrmpt is a soft chime with 30 seconds left and
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louder chime when your time expired. >> hello board. my name is [indiscernible] i have been doing community organizing in san francisco for over 25 years, and i am here in support of gilbert, because i feel like working with gilbert over the last i don't know how many years, last count, gilbert always has a open ear to the community and always about problem solving with the community. i think that is what the planning commission needs. someone who isn't just thinking about themselves, but someone who has not only the experience, but also the record, the track record of engaging all our san francisco community to be a part of this important development within our city. especially during these times where there is so much houselessness, where so many
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businesses, small businesses aren't thriving and so i just want to really uplift gilbert's skills and being able to work collectively to bring forth those voices here to city hall. this democratic city of ours. thank you. >> supervisors, chinatown cdc here in support of gilbert appointment to the planning commission. we need a problem solver and listener, we need a strategic thinker and i think gilbert brings all these things to the table and brings the experience of a native san franciscans which for a lot of us that have come later in life to the city, is really powerful when he speaks and relates to the
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issues that we see every day. i am excited to kind of bring the support of chinatown cdc and the broader api community to gilbert and his work on the planning commission, replacing our very own gabby ruiz and wanting to see more diversity of experiences and the diversity of people on the planning commission so we can tackle the important issues supervisor safai brought up with the housing element and a roadmap for the city, which will be complicated and i think an approach that says i will look at everything, i am going to really take everything into account. i'm going to listen and try to not apply one size fits all approach to my decision is can going to be really powerful and so i'm excited for gilbert to
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take the seat on the planning commission and again, in full support of his appointment. thank you very much. >> good morning. happy monday. my name is [indiscernible] here in full support of gilbert williams. i had the pleasure working with gil grt over the last 5 years as a community organizer and i think something that stands out to me other then echoing everything said before me is, gilbert's commitment to build the leadership of others and i think that is really important. i think we need a commissioner who can not only bring his own solutions to the table, but actually really take into consideration everything else that is said. i really urge you to support him and so he can go to the full board and hopefully can get appointed to the commission. i want to thank you for giving him this opportunity.
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thank you. >> good morning vice chair walton, members of the rules committee. charley, i first met mr. williams 10 years ago at community gathering the people summit. this is is event where every day people come together in order to articulate a long-term vision for planning and development of their neighborhood. he struck me as down to earth but little did i know he was a power house of community spirit, planning and advocacy. over the years i have seen gilbert take many steps forward to serve his community. he is quick to lend his time, energy and skills for community movements. a active participate in community spaces where he is sooleading voice for healthy equitable affordal development. his service takes many forms participating in neighborhood tours to uplift community struggle voices and expertise and community efforts to advocate for policies that really deliver more equitable
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outcomes for the city working class and bipoc residents. gilbert has high expectations for city and he holds to same high stands rtz rchlt he is principal human being full of integ taes, decency with fierce spirit. he has my highest recommendation for the planning commission. >> good morning vice chair walton, members of the rules committee. timothy wright. i want to echo what everybody else said. gilbert is a excellent candidate and if we want to get to our goal of 82 thousand housing units we have a guy who knows how to build these things because he is a training carpenter. i just can't say anything more. gilbert is the right guy for this job. thank you very much.
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>> good morning supervisors. i'm speaking in capacity as former supervisor city county of san francisco where in this body i served to see we had a plan for how we would build out our southern neighborhoods, how we would respond to displacement pressures happening in the southern neighborhoods and it was really important that when we talk about equity we actually really mean what we say and we actually insure there is a balance so the disbalance that happened for years working class communities do not get fair share of resources can achieve that by having a greater emphasis on working class communities. that is what reparations is about and also that's what gilbert is all about is insuring the voices of working
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class communities can have a say in how we develop our community. he's been doing that a long time whether with ace, back in the day, or in his work just as a community member, he's rooted deeply in the excelsior and has connections to district 10 and districts across the city and the voice of working class people gilbert williams represent is essential to insure we have planning for the future. right now the southern neighborhood are and western neighborhoods are slated to get the most development. how do we insure we develop and fighting displacement and insure working class communities have a right to belong in the city? that is what gilbert represents. i hope you can help him ascend to a seat on the planning commission. thank you very much. >> good morning supervisors. my name is gabriel here on behalf of the resource center.
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also speaking as someone born and raised in san francisco in the same neighborhoods gilbert grew up in, former president latino democratic club and district 11 club, gilbert was [indiscernible] if we need a expert to talk about the working class, who was displaced. i firsh met gilbert more then 10 years ago. he was a victim of foreclosure and he was out protesting in district 10 making sure other families were not evicted. he was protesting for tenants in district 5 makes sure folks were not ellis act evicted. gilbert is a tremendous human being and is a carpenter. he has experience building his own house and has experience talking to folks in san francisco that want someone to understand, sympathize and listen to issues and also the builders who have to go through construction for the housing we
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need. especially affordable housing. they understand he knows what is on the job sites, how to get thingz done so that is is what you are getting with gilbert williams. you get a commissioner that will get it done and listen to everybody and will be accessible to everybody, so i can't say enough about gilbert, but he has my highest recommendation and honored to be here on his behalf. thank you. >> thank you to all the speakers. i don't see anyone else here for public comment, so public comment is now closed. supervisor safai. >> yes. thank you. just again want to thank gilbert for coming out. i know he's been super active in doing tremendous work in our district. i actually met gilbert going door to door right after his forecloseier and we spent a few hours speaking about that. he immediately engaged in the
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excelsior planning process as mentioned and active engaged in all the projects both affordable and market rate to insure we have the maximum number of afford able housing in our district and to the carpenter happiness, they are all most all union built and every single one had union carpenters on the project, which is great. again, thanks for stepping forward mr. williams. i know it is important. you won't be the first from district 11, i think you will be the second, but still carrying that wonderful tradition and be a strong voice for the southeast neighborhood so thank you for stepping forward. >> thank you supervisor safai and i too just want to again thank commissioner ruiz for her service and thank you mr. williams stepping up and your focus on affordable housing that will be very important as we try to meet the goals of the future and we need someone who
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will fight for working class families, so appreciate you being willing to step up. planning commission is a very serious commission is and i think you understand the role that you are about to participate in and so, with that said, i would like to make a motion to strike reject throughout and replace with approved and send this appointment to the board with as a committee report. >> yes, amend and recommend as a complity report to the full board. on the motion, preston, aye. safai, aye. walton, aye. that motion passes without objection. >> thank you. motion carries. mr. clerk, please call item 2. >> item 2, ordinance amending
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the administrative code to establish a permanent homeward bound program administered by the human services agency and the department of homelessness and supportive housing for individuals experiencing homelessness or who have formerly experienced homelessness, such as individuals residing in permanent supportive housing, to receive paid travel and relocation support to a destination where the individual has someone to receive them. >> thank you mr. clerk. i know we also have representatives from hsa and hsh on hand if there are any questions. supervisor safai. >> thank you mr. chair. colleagues, want to really say first and foremost, i think this is a really important step we are taking here today. the homeward bound program started in 2004-2005. one of the most successful programs in the city's history at reunifying those that are unhoused with their family members.
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since that time, over 11 thousand people were served up until around 2018-2019. unfortunately at that time the program started to diminish the number of people served declined, and there was i think some confusion on primary lead and otherwise, so what we are doing with this legislation here today is we are putting in chapter 20 of the administrative code. we are elevating the program and insuring that on a annual basis that the city would get the numbers that are served and in the simplest form, what it is average for less then $200 per person, this allows people to reunify with their family. majority of those folks are california residents and in the end it saves thousands and thousands of dollars for san francisco and we check on them day 30, day 60, day 90.
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with the legislation in front of you today we are expanding the program somewhat to allow for those in risk of being homeless as well as those that might live in permanent supportive housing in a transitional nature to again, help reunify with their family. the concept is allowing people to go back to their home community if they so desire and allow them to be there with a loved one. the executive director of hsa and hsh will work in coordination of this program and we believe this is is the right step. unfortunately i think it was buried in the bureaucracy, not highlighted and not made as really as much a part of the tool kit as it had been in the past. in the mean time, hsh definitely expanded the amount of services that they are helping people with, and that's also a really positive thing.
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but we insure essentially that this is really thinking about those at risk of being homeless, those that are currently unhoused and reunifying them with their family and insuring it is in the code and it is a permanent part of the tool kit and no longer a after-thought as part of the service s that we provide here in san francisco. pretty straight forward. i have the amendments in front of you colleagues and unless you have any questions, but essentially, i kind of described them. i also want to thank director trent roar and suzy smith from hsa and dylan schneider and emily cohen for work with us along with rescue sf and the coalition on homelessness for input on this program. as i said just finally to wrap up, at the height it was about a thousand people a year served with this program. it diminished to less then a
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couple hundred. we want to insure this is something we can do in a real positive way and allow for the program to be administered in a really-with the proper oversight and accountability as well. thank you colleagues. >> thank you supervisor safai, is that a motion to amend? >> yes. >> thank you. mr. clerk, can we get a roll call on the motion? >> would you like to take public comment? >> yes, take public comment. my apologies. >> yes, on the motion to amend, members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak. each speaker is allowed two minutes. there is a soft chime with 30 seconds left and louder chime when time expired. any members of the public who would like to speak? there does not appear to be any speakers. >> thank you mr. clerk. no speaker, present, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, on that motion--
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>> on the motion to amend supervisor preston, aye. supervisor safai, aye. vice chair walton, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> thank you i believe the city attorney will let us know if they are substantive or not. >> they are. sorry, meant to say that. these amendments are-because we are slightly expanding the universe of individuals that can be served by this program to those that are at risk or living in permanent supportive housing and that's something that has not been done in the past and we did that in a thoughtful way to insure we can also capture people that might otherwise not have been served in the past, so we'll have to sit for a week and i think hsh and hsa might have numbers to present the following week if necessary. >> thank you supervisor safai. with that, we'll make a motion
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to continue the amended item to next week's meeting. >> yes, that is motion to continue the matter to the march 18 rules committee meeting. on that motion, supervisor preston, aye. supervisor safai, aye. vice chair walton, aye. that motion passes without objection. >> thank you, motion passes. mr. clerk, do we have any other items? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> thank you so much. we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]
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